Daily Dispatch

Here’s the reality of the digital age: YOU are your brand. Not just your work, not just your reputation, not just your resume. What you look like and how you present yourself online has become a critical piece of your image. Having the right ...

Jay Harrington | You have the power to create an interesting and profitable practice that makes you indispensable, rather than expendable, in the minds of clients. You can go from being one of many to one of a kind.

Practice innovation — at least in terms of pricing, project management and process improvement (the three "P's") — is the focus of the Legal Marketing Association’s P3 Conference, which just wrapped its second year. We asked Steve Nelson to ...

Previous Attorney at Work posts have discussed how to use Twitter for maximum effect while assuming you have an interest in it as a marketing tool. But some lawyers say they do not have Twitter accounts because it is irrelevant to their practice.

One of the striking things about law practice is our “sink-or-swim” mentality when it comes to junior associates. They do their law studies, we recruit them through various mechanisms, and then we basically just leave them to it. Then comes ...

Oh, I admit I was a little hard on my colleagues, but their idea was an old one we tried years ago to no avail. I guess they felt I was a bit harsh in the process of shooting it down (again) too, because when I left the room, I overheard one of ...

The Annual Super Marketing Conference brings noted legal marketing experts from across the continent together in Boston (and is broadcast broadly beyond) to share their wealth of knowledge in a packed day of panels and presentations. The fourth ...

Find yourself feeling irritated? Frustrated? Downright grind-your-teeth angry? Maybe you skipped breakfast. And lunch. Maybe your spouse was nasty to you at dinner last night. Maybe you can't stand the way opposing counsel flagrantly ...

Recently, I was blown away by how awesome a fellow lawyer’s office is. It’s not very big, but it has a standing desk by a window that overlooks downtown Phoenix, opening up the rest of the space for an oversize leather couch and armchair. I ...

You're hardly the last lawyer to go paperless. But you probably aren't an early adopter like Donna Neff, either — her estates and trusts practice has been paperless for years. Like most, you're probably parked somewhere between the ...